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That's the only sense in which I've been lucky: I have the kind of face to which cosmetics could be applied.
Quentin Crisp
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Quentin Crisp
Age: 90 †
Born: 1908
Born: December 25
Died: 1999
Died: November 21
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Sutton
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Daniel Pratt
Denis Charles Pratt
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Of course I lie to people. But I lie altruistically - for our mutual good. The lie is the basic building block of good manners. That may seem mildly shocking to a moralist - but then what isn't?
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For an introvert his environment is himself and can never be subject to startling or unforeseen change.
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I would never go to a place and live there because the weather was good or the scenery was beautiful or the architecture was wonderful. I would only go because the people are kind, and in America, everybody's your friend and happiness rains down from the sky.
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If at first you don't succeed, failure may be your style.
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Many [hooligans] discover to their shame that they have scruples they have roots and, greatest disadvantage of all, they have hope. The fathers superior of the order do not try to influence their children in Satan they merely shake their heads in sorrow. They know that the apostate must work out his own damnation.
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The rest of the world in which I lived was still stumbling about in search of a weapon with which to exterminate this monster [homosexuality] whose shape and size were not yet known or even guessed at. It was thought to be Greek in origin, smaller than socialism but more deadly, especially to children.
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One should always be wary of anyone who promises that their love will last longer than a weekend.
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I recommend limiting one's involvement in other people's lives to a pleasantly scant minimum.
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Exhibitionism is like a drug. Hooked in adolescence I was now taking doses so massive they would have killed a novice.
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If you live in America, you don't have to work. You can just drift along in the smiling and nodding racket.
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I've always lived in the same way.
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I don't really act. I say the words the way I would say them if I meant them.
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As we all know from witnessing the consuming jealousy of husbands who are never faithful, people do not confine themselves to the emotions to which they are entitled.
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However low a man sinks he never reaches the level of the police.
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It is true that in America I've become a national hero, but really I was a hopeless case, that was all.
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It's written into the Constitution that you're allowed to pursue happiness. In England it would be considered a frivolous objective.
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Is not the whole world a vast house of assignation of which the filing system has been lost?
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I went out into the world when I was about 22. I wrote books and I illustrated books and did book covers, and I taught tap-dancing, and I was a model in the art school. I had no ability for any of those things, but what else could I do?
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If I were God - and I never understand why I'm not - I should say, Shop around, I don't think you'll find a better bargain than here.
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The flagrantly gay Quentin Crisp dealt with homophobic bullying by refusing to bow to its onslaught. His number listed in the phone directory, he responded to derogatory remarks accompanied with a stated intent to kill him by asking, Would you like to make an appointment?
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